Pith Number

pith:RIEK45G4

pith:2026:RIEK45G4EF2JTJWVLNAGGSL7TV

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Finite-Time Analysis of Discounted Exponential-Utility Reinforcement Learning

Aditya Kumar, Ankur Naskar, Gugan Thoppe, Prashanth L. A, Vivek T A

arxiv:2608.01917 v1 · 2026-08-03 · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{RIEK45G4EF2JTJWVLNAGGSL7TV}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-08-04T02:07:39.568225Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a08ae74dc217499a6d55b4063497f9d4d873eede3103f76d6cf151269e68f52

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.01917 · arxiv_version: 2608.01917v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.01917 · pith_short_12: RIEK45G4EF2J · pith_short_16: RIEK45G4EF2JTJWV · pith_short_8: RIEK45G4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RIEK45G4EF2JTJWVLNAGGSL7TV \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 8a08ae74dc217499a6d55b4063497f9d4d873eede3103f76d6cf151269e68f52

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "734545c5c35655b48e25f5145fa83ea7720f49b2c33e9f12f595fc16e67e899c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-03T08:50:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c0ac7a2875c1318cfbf85a8d13ec11e8ee0215c081569cd8fc63f0883c0d6994"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.01917",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}